Perez: DNC gave Hillary Clinton 'insufficient and just sub-standard tools for success'

[ehrnst]

"We have to make sure that whoever wins the nomination, has all the tools to succeed," Perez said on Joe Madison "The Black Eagle" on SiriusXM radio. "In other words, that we have built our organizing infrastructure, that we have built a technology infrastructure that's second-to-none, and that we have built a voter protection infrastructure that ensures that the Republican efforts to suppress voters will never succeed. And those are the infrastructure items that we are building now. That doesn't sound sexy."

"But here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success," Perez said.

Perez's comments echo a sentiment Clinton herself expressed earlier this year, when she told Recode that the DNC's data "was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong." Those comments were met with condemnation from some Democratic operatives, including the former DNC director of data science, who called her comments "f---ing bull----."

In the radio interview Monday, Perez said that Republicans had bested Democrats when it came to investments in technology and organizing.

"By contrast the Republican National Committee had invested significant amounts of money in technology and they beat us at our own game," he said. "They expended significant amounts of money in organizing and they beat us at our own game. So that's what we have to do."

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[phleshdef]

1. Further proof that the DNC hasn't had good leadership since 2008.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Oh bullshit. Trump won because the GOP is better at cheating

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, Russian meddling etc. We can certainly learn and improve, but the fix was in.

[LenaBaby61]

4. "Oh bullshit. Trump won because the GOP is better at cheating."

(((Gerrymandering, voter suppression, Russian meddling etc. We can certainly learn and improve, but the fix was in.)))



NO DEM was going to win the 2016 GE.

Along with the gerrymandering and massive amounts of voter-suppression, it's like people keep forgetting about all of the coordinated HELP the GOP got from the ruskies, FB/Twitter. The complicit corporate media also helped put that clown into the White House.

Hell, the mechanisms that got crazy, tReasonous fatso installed into the White House are ALL still in place for 2018's mid-terms.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. " ALL still in place for 2018's mid-terms. "

That's why Mueller needs to continue to do his job. Gerrymandering affects the House, not the Senate. If we can hold on to the Senate seats we have and have a net gain we'll be in better shape than we are now.

BTW, it may be sacriledge to say this here, but Obama should have dumped DWS after the 2014 mid-terms and NEVER should have left the DNC in so much debt. I don't know what their finamcial status was before the 2008 and 2012 elections, but I look at it like going to the beach. You make a point to leave it in better shape than you found it.

[RandomAccess]

10. Yeah, and after all that she STILL won 3 million more votes

I really like what pnwmom had to say:

Hillary didn't lose because she was less POPULAR. She lost because of James Comey's letters and because of some even more important factors -- more important because they're not going away. They will be used against us in every election going forward, unless we can stop them.

The big problems are voter suppression, Russian meddling, and targeted voter propaganda through Twitter, Google, Facebook, and other forms of social media. There is no question that the Trump campaign, through Cambridge Analytica, did this -- and that the Russians did this. The only question is how much they conspired together in the propaganda campaign.

We need to figure out how to defend the democratic process from fake news and micro-targeted AI propaganda -- or lose our democracy. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029576691

[LiberalFighter]

3. Based on what I saw with data I would agree.

They would have data that had nothing to do with the voter included or in some cases identify the person as deceased when they were obviously not.

Now that was just info that did not include data from other campaigns.

[tavalon]

5. Nice bubble you have, Mr. Perez

[lunamagica]

7. I wish he had said this yesterday on Univision's morning political show.

He was ineffective, barely speaks Spanish and he kept evading questions, never standing up for Hillary against Bzazile's accusations.

He pretty much left the impression that Hillary is guilty

[Tatiana]

8. Is the infrastructure built (as in already done) or are they building it?

There is a huge difference. If this infrastructure isn't complete and in place, will it be functioning prior to the midterms?

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of confidence in Mr. Perez.

We need Dr. Dean and I am willing to work to form a Draft Dr. Dean movement.

[Nevernose]

9. It was easy for Mercer, the hedge fund wunderkind, to fund

Even easier once you’ve realized that he made his money by stealing seven BILLION dollars of public money.

I could finance all kinds of shit with that much stolen loot.